It's more for people who can't home ed for whatever reason. For example one child I teach cannot go to school due to her anxieties but her mum can't afford to not go to work full time. The other child I teach cannot access the curriculum at mainstream (has no statement) and family don't feel they can home educate for their own reasons. So it's not to offer breaks for parents that need one, rather than the chance for their children to be home educated (who would not normally be able to) and not suffer at school!
As Cleverything (now that's a name to live up to!) stated, it's always the parent's responsibilty however they choose to educate their child. So, if you home ed, you could do it all yourself, go to groups or hire tutors - it's still your responsibility! We would always ask parents to be actively involved in some way so perhaps parents can help make resources, organise trips or help out with cooking (things that can be done at any time because home educating doesn't start at 9 and finish at 3).
Our charity will pay towards tutoring fees, directly to the tutor. We would be asking parents to pay around £50 per week towards the tutoring costs. We expect to pay tutors around £25k a year, depending on whether they use their own homes or not (we could possibly help fund adapting a few rooms to use) If the tutor cannot use on home, a family who are willing for them to use their home may be given funding to adapt and let off the tutoring costs.
As this idea is still evolving, we may change this slightly but the above shows what we would like to do at the moment. The reason we want to do this stems from our plans to set up a school in the area. We felt that teaching small groups was vital for the children on our admissions list and for the money we would have had to raise to teach six children (£170k) we thought we'd use it to fund home schoolers that were doing equally brilliant jobs teaching children with SEN/anxiety disorders and let children learn in their own time (not having to achieve by 16) and allowing teachers to teach in a stress-free environment (no paperwork!!!!!)
So thank you very much for your responses - I am very pleased that there are people willing to teach other people's children. I was told recently that I am probably the only person mad enough to do it but actually... to be paid to home school my son, support him and the other children with positive interaction on a daily basis AND see families shoulders drop with relief that their children don't have to suffer at school anymore makes it the ideal job for me.
We live in Bexley, Kent and would firstly be funding groups to cover the children on our admissions list (Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham) If anybody wants to teach a group in this area then please contact me asap. Our long term plans are to help families nationwide so anybody wanting to model the idea, please also get in contact. I will message all of you that have shown interest - thank you very much!